Advocating for safe, accessible and comfortable #streets, #sidewalks and #trails in #Newburyport MA. #CompleteStreets #ActiveTransportation #cycling #walking #safestreets #bikeshare #bikebus #biketooter
Absolutely adorable. BBC reporter & #cargobike mum Anna Holligan interviews kids about why they like to bike in the #Netherlands
Absoluut schattig. #BBC reporter en bakfietsmoeder Anna Holligan interviewt kinderen over waarom ze graag fietsen in #Nederland
#BikeTooter https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/videos/cp83vv6jljvo
Welcome to 2025! Think about changing up your transportation habits while you're setting some aspirations for the year ahead. Or even just for one month to test the waters. https://bikestylelife.com/2025/01/01/new-year-ahead/
#habits #resolutions #NewYear #transportation #BikeTooter #WalkTooter #TransitTooter #cycling #walking #transit
Happy 2025!
Bike more.
People, I need to tell you, The Netherlands has a database of every traffic sign! And boy are there a load of traffic signs! https://wegkenmerken.ndw.nu/verkeersborden - via @jap
Newburyport’s Bike Share Initiative
Newburyport’s Master Plan recommends implementing a local bike share program to reduce car dependency for tourism and commuting. The City of Newburyport and Newburyport Livable Streets (NLS) are proposing a pilot program to explore how bike share would work in our City. In the coming weeks, the City Council will be considering the Administration’s proposal for a three-year pilot. If approved, the system could be up and running in the…
http://newburyportlivablestreets.org/2024/09/07/newburyports-bike-share-initiative/
Would a Bike Share System Be Good for Newburyport?
A bike share system is a public transportation service that provides bicycles for short-term use. It is a convenient and eco-friendly service that promotes sustainable urban mobility. Newburyport Livable Streets is exploring the potential of establishing a small bike share system for our area. Such a system could benefit residents and visitors by providing a convenient and inexpensive way to get around without adding…
http://newburyportlivablestreets.org/2024/02/11/would-a-bike-share-system-be-good-for-newburyport/
“The Street Project” and MV Vision Zero
In order to help raise awareness and spur conversation about street safety, Newburyport Livable Streets and the Merrimack Valley Planning Commission (MVPC) are hosting a screening of The Street Project, a documentary film that highlights the global, citizen-led fight to make our streets safer.
http://newburyportlivablestreets.org/2023/11/05/the-street-project-and-mv-vision-zero/
“The Street Project” and MV Vision Zero
In order to help raise awareness and spur conversation about street safety, Newburyport Livable Streets and the Merrimack Valley Planning Commission (MVPC) are hosting a screening of The Street Project, a documentary film that highlights the global, citizen-led fight to make our streets safer.
http://newburyportlivablestreets.org/2023/11/05/the-street-project-and-mv-vision-zero/
On October 20, join NLS and the Parker River NWR for a traffic-free, family-friendly bicycle ride under the stars on the Refuge.
Info and sign-up at http://bit.ly/refugeride
What's wrong with this picture?
Quality cycle infrastructure:
✅Clear separation between pedestrians, bike riders and motor vehicle drivers
✅Coloured asphalt
✅Wide and straight
✅Priority for bikes crossing side entrances
✅SuDS for drainage
Well done Salford.
Amazing stuff in this video of Denver's #quickBuild #tacticalUrbanism street designs @activetowns this is what north america's #trafficEngineers need to be doing, like mini-roundabouts for the price of a speed hump 😍, choke points mid-block on side streets, let's go!!! I particularly love how much they are squeezing these car lanes, if you want to change culture, only give #drivers like 3in of slack and engineers can go "🤷 just slow down, it'll fit" 😎 #ClimateAction
This is what a city *can* look like.
#Amsterdam
Currently sitting on my minimal-setback 1920’s duplex front porch, drinking a coffee, saying hi to people walking past.
Thank god our zoning doesn’t encourage proliferation of this sort of inhumane architecture.
Imagining and creating better cities requires seeing cities as nature, not separate from it.
Story by Courtney Humphries in #Boston Globe:
When someone is hit by a car, says @kmralph on @freakonomics, we often ask: What were they wearing? Where were they crossing?
But if we focus on drivers, we see that while they hit 284 people in Edmonton one year, they hit 5,500 other stationary objects. https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-is-the-u-s-so-good-at-killing-pedestrians/
What does a city street become when you close it to cars?
A place where, suddenly, a father and son can play badminton, where people can roll and stroll, where life can be lived.
Rue Wellington, tonight—one of the many pedestrian streets in #Montreal this summer.
“Fun fact: SIM City was forced to pretend that all parking lots were underground because the game would be really boring if it was proportional in terms of parking lots.”
Really boring like too many real cities and suburbs?
#parking #cars #cities #ThePowerOfParking
https://devonzuegel.com/post/we-should-be-building-cities-for-people-not-cars
This street does a good job separating pedestrians from vehicular traffic by not having vehicular traffic.
"Parking minimums shape your entire life even if you don’t realize it, from the size of your rent check to the length of your commute to how many friends live nearby."
